Photographic
Explorations:
A Century of Images in Archaeology and Anthropology: UPMThrough
April 15

Photo:
James B. Pritchard, 1958.
James B. Pritchard excavated the site of Gibeon in modern-day Jordan, a site
mentioned a number of times in the Bible. Pictured here is the spectacular pool
of Gibeon.

Photo: Jane Goodale,
1954.
The Tiwi are an Australian Aboriginal group living on Melville Island. Jane
Goodale, then a graduate student in Penn's Anthropology Department, spent
most of 1954 living among them.

Photo:
George F. Dales, 1969.
George F. Dales surveyed the Seistan region (pictured above) of southwestern
Afghanistan in search of evidence of contact between the Indus and Mesopotamian
civilizations.

Photo
by John Henry Haynes, 1899.
Workers carry away baskets full of dirt in a stark, surreal landscape at Nippur
in Iraq, 1899.

Without
Ground:ICAThrough
July 27

Kimowan
McLain's Without Ground creates a narrative of Native American
diaspora. Using manipulated photo images transferred directly to the wall,
Without Ground marches like film imagery in a line of figures stretching
the length of the ICA's Ramp Corridor.

Mammoth
Scale: The Anatomical Sculptures of William Rush: Wistar InstituteThrough
October

William
Rush, model of the sphenoid bone, 1808.
Photo by Candace diCarlo.